Comments on: Premium themes are translatable themes

By: SE7EN (Nice from Thailand)

SE7EN (Nice from Thailand) — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 08:22:45 +0000

My blog is in Thai and English but I prefer my WordPress installation and theme in English

By: Simon

Simon — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 03:54:45 +0000

A big Thanks, Gracias & Danke, Andrew! Will definitely use it.

By: Stefano, www.wordpressmania.it

Stefano, www.wordpressmania.it — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:09:30 +0000

Totally agree!
For all non-english bloggers the fact that a theme is i18n ready is definitively a needed feature!
At least the premium themes need to be i18n, but very few are!

Even all the free themes listed at wordpress.org sholud be i18n ready, as WordPress is...

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:46:43 +0000

Thanks Andrew.

I've been wondering how to do this for a while for both themes and plugins.

By: Christoph

Christoph — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:41:54 +0000

I demand every theme to be i18n ready, seriously.
While writing the sourcecode it's very easy to internationalize the theme. Putting i18n in afterwards is a huge timefactor – I did it once for Neil Mertons Web2.0* theme and it took me a whole day to test and bugfix (too bad Neil disappeared from the internet – and so did his theme).

i18n is as easy as making widget-ready sidebars. Too bad most theme authors do not care about widgets and hardcode everything inside their sidebar…